Career risk of hepatitis C virus infection among U.S. emergency medical and public safety workers

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1174-1181

  Rischitelli, Gary ^a,c   Lasarev, Michael ^a   McCauley, Linda ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BLOOD; CAREER; DATA ANALYSIS; FIRE FIGHTER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MEDLINE; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POLICE; PRISON; PROBABILITY; PROTECTION; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 27844476340     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000174295.66308.92     Document Type: Article

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